5 Reasons Why Your Diet Failed (And What You Can Do About It)

It’s the same thing every year, isn’t it? January the first hits, and you make the decision to lose weight and feel great.

Unfortunately, 80% of these resolutions fail by February. If this isn’t the first time you’re making this a goal, you probably have some guesses as to why your diet failed.

Diets don’t work. In fact, many of them are designed to make the dieter fail. If your diet failed, you’ll inevitably start again, spending more money and time on the project and talking about it on social media with your friends.

This keeps the diet companies in business and personal trainers get free money when you don’t show up for appointments. Are you ready to change your life for the better and for the long-term?

Keep reading for 5 reasons why you failed and what you can do to turn things around.

1. The Diet Wasn’t Realistic

The biggest problems with diets and one of the biggest reason they fail, is they aren’t realistic. They aren’t realistic because they expect too much out of a person.

Or they are too demanding on the body.

The human body can take a beating for a day. It can take it for weeks and sometimes months, but eventually, it needs food.

Not only that, but diets are not personalized to the individual. A piece of paper has no idea what’s right for you.

The Solution

Find a plan that works for you. What you’re looking for is a permanent lifestyle change. Something doable.

You want to eat healthy. This isn’t anything weird or alien to anyone. Eat fruits and vegetables.

Sugar is an epidemic and it’s highly addictive. If you want to give yourself a cheat day, that’s fine, but you need to remember that every time you eat sugary foods, you’re just going to want more.

Removing sugar from your diet will be annoying at first. After a couple of months, your food will taste better and natural sweets like fruit will satisfy your sugar cravings.

2. The Diet Failed Because of Deprivation

Ever notice how when you’re on a diet, you fantasize about all of the foods you used to eat on a regular basis?

Your diet could be lacking in success because you want the things you used to enjoy.

The Solution

The fact is, the more you indulge in unhealthy practices, the more deprived you’re going to feel.

So how do you defeat this? Your diet failed because of overindulgence. So the easiest way for you to fix it is going to be to slowly remove these indulgences from your life.

Sounds simple, right?

If you eat a pizza every week, go to three-fourths of a pie. A few weeks or months later, take it down to half a pizza every week. If you can only subtract a slice at a time from your routine, do it.

They key is to remove the bad and replace it with good. For every soda replaced with a glass of water, you’re becoming a healthier person. Honest, long-lasting weight loss does not happen overnight.

3. You’re Hungry

When you eat a light dinner, you run a risk of waking up in the middle of the night and being so hungry you end up eating the first thing that sits still long enough for you to stuff it into your mouth.

The reasons your diet failed is primarily due to the calorie restrictions of the average diet.

Yes, it’s true. Reducing calories will result in weight loss. However, this isn’t sustainable. What truly matters is where your calories are coming from.

The Solution

If you’re dealing with constant hunger, the answer for you is to eat and eat often.

Yes, that’s right. However, you need to be smart about your meal choices. Plan and prep them in advance to reduce the risk of making poor decisions with your food.

4. Problems with Commitment

This is a huge problem for many people. You just straight up don’t want to do it.

This is completely internal. There is no self-help book that can fix this.

The Solution

You need to think about why you want to lose weight. Are you doing it for you? Or are you doing it for your significant other?

Are you doing this because you want people to look at you? To think you’re beautiful?

These are the wrong reasons. Until you decide to make this change for you and your health, you will likely not see any results.